Leverage Capital Structure and Dividend Policy

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Module 4 - SLP

Leverage, Capital Structure, and Dividend Policy

Review the 1) dividends for the past three years and 2) capital structure of the company you have been researching for your SLP assignment. Then answer the following questions in a Word document (except for the Excel portion specifically noted). The paper should be 2 pages in length.

  1. What has occurred with your selected company’s dividend payout, dividend yield, and dividend per share over the past three years? Do you have any explanations for what has occurred? Also, has this company had any stock splits or stock repurchases in recent years?
  2. How does your selected company’s dividend payout, dividend yield, and dividend per share compare with other companies in its industry? Has the company’s dividend strategy been similar to other companies in its industry?
  3. Use Excel to plot your selected company’s earnings and dividends over the past three years. Do you notice any patterns? What dividend policies from the background readings best match these patterns?

SLP Assignment Expectations

  • Answer the assignment questions directly.
  • Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
  • For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps.
  • For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal.

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Attached.

Running Head: TESLA MOTORS

1

Tesla Motor Dividend Analysis
Name
Course
Tutor
Date

TESLA MOTORS

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Question 1
The following table shows Tesla Motor dividend payout, dividend yield and dividend per
share

2015

2016

2017

Dividend payout

0.00

0.00

0.00

Dividend yield

NA

NA

NA

Dividend per share

-6.93

-4.68

NA

The dividend payout for Tesla motors have been zero over the last three years. This can be
attributed to the following reasons;
1. Tesla motors may be a non-dividend company. This means it never pays dividend to the
capital contributed hence zero dividend in the last three years.
2. It may have a special type of dividend. Whenever a company declares a one off special
dividend, it has a payout which is not annualized therefore high possibilities of zero
dividend payout.
3. It may have company delays. Missed information at the right...


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